Boy was abused by uncle who silenced him with threats that Shere Khan from his favourite film the Jungle Book would hunt him down if he told anyone

Baillie Blomeley, aged four, with Stockport County's Vernon bear the year before he was abused

A teenager has bravely spoken publicly about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his paedophile uncle - who silenced him with threats that Shere Khan from his favourite movie would hunt him down if he told anyone.

Baillie Blomeley was just four when Simon Holmes molested him during a family holiday on the Greek island of Zante.

Holmes, then 17, used the Disney movie to warn the the lad he would be hunted down by Shere Khan from the Rudyard Kipling story if he told his family and said: 'The tiger will come get you if you say anything - nobody will believe you.'

The youngster was too terrified to tell anyone of his encounters with ginger haired Holmes but later as a teenager when he visited Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park in Florida, the sight of ten Bengal tigers in their pens triggered horrific memories.

The flashback left him determined to get justice and he went to police in 2016 vowing to get justice.

Simon Holmes was jailed for four years for abusing his nephew (Image: Cavendish Press (Manchester) Ltd)

Last December 20 at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, Holmes, now 32, of Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater Manchester who was convicted of eight sex offences was jailed for four years after Baillie, now 19, testified against him.

Now the victim, a roofer, has waived his right to anonymity and said: "I used to love Jungle Book when I was kid and watched it all the time but he used the Shere Khan character as he was ginger to threaten me.

"Even to this day I can’t look at orange tigers. When I was at Disney’s Animal Kingdom I was looking at my phone and then looked up and the next thing I knew I was staring at about ten tigers that were all orange. I just broke down in tears. The sight of a tiger great affects me.''

He added: ''During the trial, he’d smile at me. He looked smug like he’d got away with it. The day before he got kept on remand and read out his statement, he winked at me.

"He was reading his statement and I thought this is just pure, pure lies. His story didn’t add up, when you tell lies the lies catch up to you. He’s changed his story so many times over the three-year investigation, but my story is solid.

''I never really had a good word to say about the police, but what they did through the trial I couldn’t have asked for anything more, they were brilliant.

Red-haired Simon Holmes threatened his nephew that Shere Khan the villain from his favourite film the Jungle Book would hunt him out if he told anyone about the abuse (Image: Cavendish Press (Manchester) Ltd)

"If anyone else came forward, I’d support them in any way I possibly can. I’ve still got my own life to do, I've still got to go to work. But if anyone needed help going through the process, I’m more than happy to do it.

"It’s unheard of for men to come forward but I had to share this for me because I want all of his neighbours, all of his work colleagues, to know what he did. I hoped that if I put it out there then other people might come forward. Coming forward is the best thing you can do.''

The incidents occurred in 2003 after Holmes who lived with Baillie's grandmother was invited to the holiday by the victim's unsuspecting mother.

Whilst staying in a hotel the pair were left alone together on four occasions whilst Baillie's mother went to a local shop while his mum went out to buy breakfast.

Violated and confused, Baillie returned home and his family life carried on as usual.

He said: "Everything was normal with him before we went on the holiday and he was just part of the family.

''It was just me, my mum and him on this holiday and I remember what he did to me. My mum only left the hotel room to get food and stuff like that - that's when it would happen.

"When I was growing up, after that holiday nothing got said. I still saw him pretty much every day, he lived at my nana’s house.

"I was there all the time, every day after school I’d go there. It just carried on as if he was a normal part of my family. I kept my mouth shut because I didn’t want to upset my nana. But I reported it in 2016 because thought he’s not getting away with this. My nana and grandad disowned me."

In court Holmes who denied indecent assault blew a kiss at two of his family members as he was sent down to the cells.

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Earlier he listened from the dock as Baillie read an emotional victim impact statement saying: ''I want to close this chapter in my life, no sentence he receives today will be long enough for me.

''For all of the disgusting things you did, you will now always be a convicted pedophile. You can not imagine how much I hate myself for what you did and how much I hated my mum for what you did. I wonder if I can be happy about myself ever again.

''You destroyed my childhood, I feel like I'm stuck in a hole I can't climb out of. You will never understand the damage you have caused me.

"I have depression and you are the source of the problem. I tried to accept what you did to me and move on. I try to escape from the pain you have caused me.

''I've told my story of what you did to the wonderful world of social media, now all of your family, your employer, your neighbours, they all know what you are and forever you will be known as Simon John Holmes a child sex offender.

Baillie Blomeley, a roofer, says the abuse left him with depression but he was determined to get justice (Image: Cavendish Press (Manchester) Ltd)

''Take a good look at me and wink at me again. I will be holding my head up high and walking out of this court room and having a beer with my mates tonight while you will be looking over your shoulder in prison. I hope you suffer as I have and still do.''

In mitigation defence lawyer Martin Callery said: '''The offences can be described as opportunistic and are now of some age. A custodial sentence will crush him, he will not deal very well with a sentence and physically is not a man who would be able to look after himself in any custodial environment.''

But Judge Bernadette Baxter told Holmes: ''You tore a family apart and while some will forever believe you others will forever believe your victim- and the reality is your victim is telling the truth. Although I am sure your family think there is a gross breach of trust, in legal terms you were a child yourself and were left very briefly with your victim.

''You threatened the boy that nobody would believe him if he told, you used your greater age to deter him from complaining to anybody about this.

''I must sentence you on the basis that you have led a decent and hard working life and I must give you significant credit for the fact that you were only just 17 and had just left school. You were extremely emotionally and sexually immature at the time that this happened.''